I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. - Dan Brown, author ofThe Da Vinci Code.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition. - William Osler

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Brilliant people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. No one is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and no one is so poor that he cannot give it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the cornerstone of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. When people are too tired to give you a smile, give them one of yours. No one needs a smile so much as he who has none to give. - Author unknown

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments. - Dennis Miller

Making happiness and misery the same, making success and failure the same, fight thou on - Gita

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. - Wilson Mizner

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee

The education of a person is never completed until he dies. - Robert E. Lee

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - E.E. Cummings

We can make mountains of molehills and molehills of mountains. Our thoughts can heal us and our thoughts can make us ill.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. - Jackie Robinson

Motto: Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

A truly rich man is one whose children will run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Never judge another until you have walked two weeks in his shoes.

The person who is straightforward and honest doesn't have to worry about a faulty memory.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. - Frederick Langbridge

I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. The essence is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry inThe Little Prince (In French): "Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. - Chinese proverb

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. - Saul Bellow (1915-2005)My favourite quote. This statement actually comes from one of Bellow's books. Sorry I forgot to jot down the book title when I copied from it. - PJG

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. - Pascal

The biggest mistake you can make is to always be right.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao-Tzu

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

If you give a man a fish, he will have food for a day. If you show him how to fish, he will have food all his life.

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In life we have to jostle and be jostled. We elbow our way through life, giving and receiving offence.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you. - Confucius

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton